This week we use the most nineties movie imaginable to travel back to the 1940s with Dead Again! Join us for a discussion of past life regression methods, the Bridey Murphy case, the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Journalism winners, Rube Goldberg, and more!

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1948 Pulitzer Prizes:

"1948 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Journalism" https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/1948 "The Wacky Inventions of Rube Goldberg," CBS News (26 January 2014). https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/the-wacky-inventions-of-rube-goldberg/3/ Gary Pomerantz, "When Georgia had three governors: The story that won George Goodwin a journalism prize," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (29 December 1996). https://www.ajc.com/news/special-reports/when-georgia-had-three-governors-the-story-that-won-george-goodwin-journalism-prize/PNNohvV4spaPsd5lFSzbkK/ Alexis Stevens, "Atlanta Pulitzer Prize winner George Goodwin dies at 97," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (21 January 2015). https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-pulitzer-prize-winner-george-goodwin-dies/5ndMsn77oN56RdQwTh05MO/ Raymond J. Blair, "Bert Andrews Dies in Denver: Bert Andrews, Prize Reporter, Dies at 52," The Washington Post (22 August 1953). http://bytesdaily.blogspot.com/2012/07/pulitzer-prize-for-photography-1948.html "Nat S. Finney, Ex-Reporter, Won Pulitzer in Journalism," New York Times (22 December 1982). "The Editor's Notebook," Detroit Free Press (16 November 1947), 16. "'Iron Curtain' Tactics Hit By Ferguson: Senator Talks Sternly Of Impeachment in Speech to Senate," The Hartford Courant (8 August 1948), 2. "There was once a time where 3 men claimed to be Georgia's governor at the same time," 11Alive, (27 November 2020) YouTube https://youtu.be/ALhWRRaVxkw Ronald Keith Gaddie, "Georgia's Three Governors' Controversy: An American Coup D'etat?" The University of Oklahoma, Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage" YouTube (3 August 2016). https://youtu.be/43Avbm8tZvc Thomas Scott, "James V. Carmichael (1910-1972)" and Scott E. Buchanan, "County Unit System," New Georgia Encyclopedia https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/business-economy/james-v-carmichael-1910-1972 and https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/counties-cities-neighborhoods/county-unit-system Erica Sterling, "Maceo Snipes," The Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project, https://coldcases.emory.edu/maceo-snipes/ "Answers Sought in 1946 Georgia Killing," https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna17127541

Film Background:

Roger Ebert, "Dead Again," https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/dead-again-1991 Box Office Mojo "Dead Again," https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl3209463297/weekend/ "Dead Again" Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Again "Dead Again (1991)" IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101669/

Past Life Regression:

Gabriel Andrade, "Is Past Life Regression Therapy Ethical?" Journal of Medical Ethics and the History of Medicine 10, 11 (2017) Herbert Brean, "Bridey Murphy Puts Nation in a Hypnotizzy," Life Magazine, 1956 https://books.google.com/books?id=6FYEAAAAMBAJ&q=bridey+murphy&pg=PA30#v=snippet&q=bridey%20murphy&f=false Kevin Heffernan, "The Hypnosis Horror Films of the 1950s: Genre Texts and Industrial Contexts," Journal of Film and Video 54, 2-3 (2002) Chris D. Bader, "The UFO Contact Movement from teh 1950s to the Present," Studies in Popular Culture 17, 2 (1995) Alison Winter, "Manchurian Candidates: Forensic Hypnosis in the Cold War," Grey Room 45 (2011) The Search for Bridey Murphy, Full Movie, available at https://youtu.be/xJHD8fY3PlE